The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-23
THE WEST.


TIE maltsters' strike at Milwaukee, Wis,
has practically ended, the local union hav-
ing given permission to the men to get work
wherever they can find it.
THE will suit Of the late John c. Staser,
OF Evansville, Ind, involving 100000, was
decided in favor OF the daughters rs
against the sons.
BURGLARS made an attempt to rob bank
at Galesburg, Mimi, early the other morn
ing. George Wry, who sleeps in room
over the bank heard the noise and fired on
the burglars, fatally wounding q man
named Lawrence.
ED. BARR. . stock dealer. was burned to
death in Q fro at Lesher's livery stable,
Denver, COL, the other night
WoNG An HUNG was convicted in San
Francisco recently Of trafiicking in Chinese
women.
THE trial Of Benjamin e. Hopkins, the
second of the Fidelity Bank wreckers, CON-
menced at Cincinnati on the 18th.
NAT KRUsK, a MINER, was caught in
limestone crushing machine ut the Calu-
met and Hecla mine. at Calumet, Mich, the
other day and completely torn to pieces,
both legs being torn OF and the body be-
headed and dsemboweled.
WoN8 An HUNG. the Chinaman who was
convicted at San Francisco on the charge
OF importing Chinese women for immoral
purposes has been sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment in the California State pris-
on and to pay a fine Of &, OO0.
The elevator at Warren, Mimi, and 80. :
600 bushels Of wheat were destroyed BY
fire the other night. Loss, $40, 1000.
IT is reported in Duluth, M:nn., that f. L.
Sawyer, secretary of the Duluth Roller
Mill Company, has disappeared with over
5000 of the company's money.
The Elkhart lind paper pail and Excel
sior starch mills were destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss. $4,000
WHILE crossing the Missouri river twenty
miles below Bismarck, d. T., the other
night a family consisting of Charles W halen,
wife and daughter, were drowned. They
lost tho road and the team passed SO near
large air hole that the ice broke and the
animals and people were lost.
BIZ the explosion of an old boiler on the
farm of the Harlow brothers near Sey.
mour, Ind, the other day, Renry and
William Harlow were killed instantly.
OVER one hundred deaths from diphtheria
were reported in and about Catlin, ILL.,, last
week. The schools of the county have been
closed.
TEE Vulcan mills at South St Louis have
been ordered closed, due. it was alleged, to
President Cleveland's message.
THE twelfth annual meeting Of the Freed
mems Aid Advisory Society was held in
Chicago on the 18th. The expenses were
$lSS,OOO last year.
Two Cinnamon were convicted Of muir
der in the first degree in Portland, Ore, on
the 18th.
THE Ohio State Grange was in session at
Canton recently. Among the resolutions
adopted was one opposing the placing of
raw materials on the free list, protesting
against any further reduction in the wool
tariff and demanding the restoration OF the
tariff of 1867.
CONGRESSMAN WARNER, Of Kansas CITY,
has been appointed by Commander in Chief
Rea, OF the Grand Army. as member OF
the committee to secure an appropriate
memorial for John A. Logan.
FEARS are entertained at Two Rivers,
Wis, OF the loss of the small fishing tug
Edith and her crew Of six men.
A COLLISION occurred at a crossing at Fos-
toria, O., the other night between freight
and a passenger train. but not passenger
or train man was hurt.
CHARLES BELLOWS was hanged at Charles
City, Iowa, on the 18th for the murder of
his niece, Alice Waterman. in July, 1886.
This was the first legal execution in Iowa
since 1866.
MAJOR WILLIAM SINS, secretary OF the
Kansas State Board Of Agriculture, has
concluded to resign January IL.
WILLIAM TEENAINE, of Stonewall, Col,
mistook the fur cap Of n young man named
Thompson for deer head recently and
shot and killed him.